Work life... When will it begin?

Hello...

I'm sitting here working hard (or hardly working?) on my thesis and I have finally started to see the end... (Yeah right!) It feels as though I soon will be ready to send the first rough copy to my company for them to read it and comment on it... I'm actually dreading the day I get it back from them... Self esteem issues? Me? Noooo...

Anyway... As you know, I'm currently searching high and low (well not that low) for a job opening in my field and preferably in the near geographical region... And as you might know, I have had a bunch of interviews for three companies that were all very interesting and also interested in me. I received an offer from one of them last Monday, but on Wednesday I turned them down... I feel like such a spoiled brat, 'cause I turned them down on the account of a bad offer. And I didn't give them that reason. Instead I told them that I had received an offer from another company and that the job description there was slightly more interesting. This was not entirely truthful, but hopefully they will never know. They offered me 18% less than I demanded a month, so I still fell that I did the right thing.

Unfortunately, on Tuesday of last week, the company that had the most interesting job opportunity called me at around 7 p.m. and kindly turned me down... ); They were however very nice and the guy who had interviewed me told me that he thought that I had been a very good subject and that he hoped that he would see another application from me in the future. So why did they turn me down? Well... Lack of experience. The guy they went for in the end had already worked for five years within the company and they felt that they needed to take care of his experience. The fun thing was that this was an internal recruitment and out of 18 people applying for the position, I was the only external applicant. And I was so close. I was the last to be cut from the recruiting process, so I still feel very good about that. Yay me! ;D

And the third? Well I was there for a third interview last Thursday to meet the team in which I might work. I still haven't found out. We are (as far as I know) still two applicants competing for this position so now I'm sitting here, a nervous wreck. Oh can they please just give me a call? I don't even care if I get the job anymore; I just want to know... Well that's a lie... Of course I want the job! I applied for it, didn't I?

So, that's what's been up... I better get back to my (very) nervous writing now...

Ciao!